can a baby kangaroo one centimetre long know the right nipple
that would meets its needs?", "How has the mother kangaroo
placed milk in her four nipples with such different ingredients?"
What is more, the milk the new-born baby sucks is hotter than the
other milk from the other nipples. Their ingredients are also
different. This being the case, how did the mother kangaroo
manage to heat this milk? How has she added the necessary
ingredients to this milk?
Remember, it is not the mother who has accomplished all these
things. The mother kangaroo does not even know that the milk
issuing from the nipples is different. It is unlikely that she could
compute the temperature of the milk produced by her nipples. She
cannot manage to provide each nipple with different kinds of milk.
She cannot even know that they are different. She is only a
kangaroo living under Allah's watchful care. Her baby's needs are
taken care of by Allah. Our Lord, the All-Compassionate and Most
Merciful, has placed the most appropriate milk in
the most appropriate place for the babies,
that is, in the mother's pouch.
A baby kangaroo spends its
first six and a half months in
this pouch. After spending the
next eight months both in the
pouch and outside, it leaves
it once and for all.
Meanwhile, before the
first joey leaves the pouch,
49
